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"It really vexes me," observed Zenobia, as we left the rooard I should not have thought him

at all the sort of person to be turned back by a puff of contrary wind,

or a feflakes drifting into his face"

"Do you know Hollingsworth personally?" I inquired

"No; only as an auditor--auditress, I mean--of some of his lectures,"

said she "What a voice he has! and what a man he is! Yet not so reat heart; at least, he moved

ainst lorious powers to such a grimy,

unbeautiful, and positively hopeless object as this reformation of

criminals, about which he makes himself and his wretchedly small

audiences so very miserable To tell you a secret, I never could

tolerate a philanthropist before Could you?"

"By no means," I answered; "neither can I now"